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The latest regional finalists have been announced, this time from Rio de Janeiro.
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More state finalists are being announced for the 2010 Desafio Brasil startup competition. We already mentioned the finalists from Pernambuco and Bahia, as well as Minas Gerais. Here are the finalists from Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.

Of the six competitors in Rio Grande do Sul, where the competition was held by the university PUC/RS, the following will be moving to the national level: Read more…

It took two professionals two months to get the first version of FreeClas up and running. FreeClas offers free online classifieds, and is a project from Santa Catarina startup B2Top Negócios. They are competing against some large players in the space: OLX and QueBarato (the latter part of Grupo Buscapé). Read more…

UniPartners, a new fund created by five business people with 30 years experience in the market has already invested in six startups: Solutis, e-Z Vida, MTM Tecnologia, Gran TI, Smart Energia and CMS. The group is focused on investments in the IT sector that function in the areas  of health and sustainable use of natural resources. The founders are Ana Paula Costa Braun, Jack de Oliveira Cavalcanti Jr, João Francisco da Silva Mendes Neto, Likiso Hattori and Liliane Moura Bender (see their profiles here). Read more…

I want to publish a cool email I received not long ago.

“Hey Diego! My name is Marcel. I am a Brazilian from Curitiba, a programmer, and living in Amsterdam. I work for http://thenextweb.com.

I would like firstly to thank Startupi. The startup scene is so small in Brazil, it’s cool to see people working to improve it, to create some zoomzoomzoom.

Secondly I’d like to tell you about a startup that some colleagues and I just launched: http://shuffler.fm. Read more…